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CURTAIN BRACKET.

No. 284,143. Patented Aug. 28, 1883.

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DANIEL 1). nuennr, or NEWARK, NEW Inns-Er, AssIeNon TO WILLIAM I. .MERsERE II & 00., or SAME PLACE.

QURTAlN-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,143, dated August 28, 1883. l

' Application filed June 22,1883. (No model.) I

-.To all whom it may concern-.-

Beit known thatI, DANIEL D. NUGENT, of I Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, assignor to W. T. Mersereau 8t 00., have invented Im- 2 a 5 provements in the Construction of Curtain- ]?ole Brackets; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure I is atop view of my improved ourtain-pole bracket, punched out, but. not bent; Fig. 2, a side view of the bracket, Fig. 3, a front view of the same; Fig. 4:, a view of the same constructed to receive a half-round pole. Fig. 5 is atop view of Fig. 2.

In the drawings like parts of the invention are indicated by the same letters of reference. The nature of my invention consists in the construction, as more fully hereinafter set H forth, of an improved bracket for supporting curtain-poles, the object of the invention being the production of a bracket for curtainpoles which can be afforded at a low price to j the consumer, and in carrying out my inven- I tion I produce the bracket from one section of sheet metal.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention, I will describe the same. I Figure 1 shows the strip of metal A, fromwhich the bracket is formed by punching out, by means of a proper die, the tonguepiece B, and the holes a b in thebracke't for the screws,

3 5 by which it is attached to the window-casing,

and also the hole o to receive the screw 0 for retaining the curtain-pole in position. After the sheetor section of metalhas been stamped,

.as shown, the. strip or section of metal is. halfsocketed or half-round portion of the bracket,

is inserted in the hole a. When the bracket is intended to support what is known as a -half-round pole, the socketed portion is made relatively smaller, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. I

It will be observed that a bracket thus made can be produced at an exceedingly low cost, and yet prove sufficiently strong for the purpose for which it is to be used, thus greatly.

cheapening its cost to the consumer.

Having now set forth my invention, I claim 1. As a new article of manufacture, a curtain-pole bracket formed from asingle section of sheet metal by punching 'out the tonguepiece B and holes a, b, and c, and then halfrounding the section of metal, as at D, sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a bracket formed from a single section of sheet metal, as described, the retaining-screw O, for the pur- I pose set forth.

DANIEL D. NUGEN'I. In presence of WILLIAM V. H. IIIoKs, A. SIDNEY DOANE. 

